Barcelona Bike Tour

            Taking an architectural tour of a city is a very interesting experience.  Being able to experience a building at the moving speed of a bicycle creates different perspectives at a fast pace, allowing for a basic but important understanding of the building’s presence in the city. It also allows for one to quickly be able to recognize the buildings most important element because of the short amount of time that one spends observing and analyzing the building.

            As an assignment we were asked to draw buildings in a series of vignettes that use three lines, five lines, and eight lines. This forced us to draw what we thought was the most important element of the buildings. The buildings that I felt I analyzed best were the second and third buildings we drew.

            The second building we drew was a tall vertical building that stands alone. When approaching it from the street, one realizes that its profile is violently pierced by an extremely horizontal building in the foreground. I then chose to express the tall buildings face. It is covered by angled strip louvers that are seen from top to bottom. This gives the building a very bright and impressive feel.

            The third drawing we did was of a group of three buildings. The three buildings include one taller building in between two shorter buildings.  I felt that the most important elements of these buildings were their edges. Their edges violently collided with each other creating a very interesting perspective.